ITunes upgrade, now won't open on external drive

Hello, mac genii,
I recently moved iTunes to my external hard drive. It has worked well. Just upgraded iTunes to 11.2.1 from a 10.? version. Now iTunes won't open. I have a 2009 13" macbook pro, using a western digital 1T ex. drive. I moved iTunes using a method I learned in this forum (from Limnos), by moving the iTunes folder to the ex. drive, and holding the option key down while clicking the iTunes icon, choosing the ex. drive for the location of the library. When I downloaded the upgrade, i had the ex. drive plugged in. It appears as though it upgraded in both the ex drive and internally. I tried doing the option + iTunes icon and nothing happened. The iTunes folders are all still intact as far as I can tell.
Any ideas or suggestions?

My 8.1 will not start either. Starts to open the iTunes library, then I get the "quit unexpectedly" message.
I still have iTunes 8.0.2. When I try to open it, same thing happens, even though that version always worked just fine.
I have tried restarting. No luck.
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